Maziyar Ghiabi
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 82392 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Maziyar Ghiabi |
| NOMBRES | Maziyar |
| APELLIDO | Ghiabi |
| FIRMA | GHIABI M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2171-2811 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
A Double Decline in Character”
Using a constructivist grounded theory design, this study explores the perception and experience of Iranian women living with drug use, identifying everyday conflicts and coping strategies that enable them to manage their situation. We conducted unstructured, in-depth interviews with abstinent drug users (11) and healthcare professionals (2) at three rehab centers in Tehran, Iran. In line with our grounded theory aspirations to explore the social…
The cultural turn in understanding ‘addiction’
The Pluriverse of Intoxication
This article establishes a conceptual framework for decolonial drug histories and, at the same time, moves beyond decolonization. It brings back the radical alterity of historical figures of intoxication in the Islamicate world and introduces them as paradigms with potential to go beyond decolonization. This approach refers to the urgency of not comfortably relying on decolonial critique as moral indignation toward the past but rather showing tha…
The everyday lives of drugs
The everyday is the material structure where the performance of culture and economy takes place. It is also the place where private and public institutions and bureaucracies set the rhythm of life for workers and citizens. Negotiating with the machines, be it factories, offices, online meeting rooms, the desks of administrators, and the rules of loans and credit institutions and agents is the stuff of everyday life. In the drug lifeworlds, the te…
Critique of everyday narco-capitalism
Capitalism is not only an economic mode of production; it is also a form of life. This also applies to a historical type of capitalism, which is the capitalism founded on (illicit) drugs - in other words: narco-capitalism. The article discusses how capitalism alters life at the nexus of drug production, trade and consumption through a study of drug heartlands in Colombia, Afghanistan and Myanmar. What forms of life emerge under narco-capitalism? …
Decolonizing Drug History? Notes on a Journey Southward
Critical policy frontiers
Ontological journeys
How can we conceive alternative policy models that embrace the empirical potentialities emerging from the lifeworld of drugs? The article reflects on this question, concluding that to reassess and to reinvent current policies on drugs, we need to think with a political ontology. Incidentally, the article also responds to the critique dismissing ontological inquiries as obstructing - or, at best, not informing - alternative drug policies. In an ar…
Drugs, conflict and development
The Mythological Machine in the Great Civil War (2001–2021)
The article revisits 'sectarianism' as an epistemic venue within the context of a Great Civil War in the Middle East (2001-2021), a label that includes the overarching narratives of political life in the aftermath of 9/11 up to the aftermath of the so-called 'Arab Spring.' By introducing the notion of the 'mythological machine,' it argues that 'sectarianism' is a myth, something that does not exist in real terms, but which has real world effects.…
Social work post-disaster response in Iran
Flash-flooding affected Iran in March 2019 causing the displacement of thousands of people. Social workers established a Child Friendly Space (CFS) and applied comprehensive case management to provide psychosocial support for people who were affected by flooding (PWAF) (n = 565) in a community in Poldokhtar, covering a period of 3 months. Outreach services, involving community-volunteers, providing counseling, establishing CFS, training PWAF for …
Power and Illicit Drugs in the Global South
Gianroberto Scarcia (11 March 1933—1 July 2018), Italian Iranologist
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Under the bridge in Tehran
The article provides an ethnographic study of the lives of the 'dangerous class' of drug users based on fieldwork carried out among different drug using 'communities' in Tehran between 2012 and 2016. The primary objective is to articulate the presence of this category within modern Iran, its uses and its abuses in relation to the political. What drives the narration is not only the account of this lumpen, plebeian group vis à vis the state, but a…
Lessons on the Drug War from an Enemy
Iran has largely abandoned its hard-line policies and now treats drug abuse as a public health problem. Why is it so hard for other nations to renounce their costly embrace of prohibition
Drugs Politics
s funding landscape, especially for works related to Iran and the
Le ministère de la crise ou l’art de gouverner en Iran
Cette étude reprend la notion d’« état d’exception » énoncée par Giorgio Agamben et la revisite dans le cadre du système politique de la République islamique d’Iran, généralement considérée comme un État autoritaire par les observateurs occidentaux. Dans ce pays, la catégorie de crise a été pourvue d’un statut juridique par l’institution de la notion de maslahat , « intérêt », interprétée au croisement de l’exégèse théologique chiite et de l’État…
The council of expediency
Giorgio Agamben argues that in contemporary governance the use of 'emergency' is no longer provisional, but 'constitutes a permanent technology of government' and has produced the extrajudicial notion of crisis. The engendering of 'zones of indistinction' between the law and its practice is what Agamben defines as a 'state of exception'. This article adopts the notion enunciated by Agamben and revisits it in the Islamic Republic of Iran. There, t…
Islam and cannabis
Iran is currently discussing cannabis and opium regulations, which could bring a legalisation of drug consumption through a state supervised system. The article engages with the question of cannabis by looking at the legal interpretation of religious authorities in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The choice of Iran is justified for several reasons: firstly, Iran has a long history of drug use and cannabis has been part of the country's intoxicant t…
Maintaining disorder
This article analyses the ways in which the state 'treats' addiction among precarious drug (ab)users in Iran. While most Muslim-majority as well as some Western states have been reluctant to adopt harm reduction measures, the Islamic Republic of Iran has done so on a nationwide scale and through a sophisticated system of welfare intervention. Additionally, it has introduced devices of management of 'addiction' (the 'camps') that defy statist mode…
Spirit and being
Few commodities are as global as drugs. Cannabis, opium, heroin, amphetamines, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), khat, psychedelic cacti and mushrooms as well as an interminable list of other natural or synthesised substances travel and are consumed around the globe for all possible reasons. Human migration, trade, cultural trends, medical practice, political repression: together they constitute the drug phenomenon today – and indeed in much of h…
Passive, Silent and Revolutionary
To counter the trend toward mechanization of research and aridity of critical analysis, this article makes a case for an interdisciplinary quest. To borrow Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze's phrase, we are convinced that 'everything is political, but every politics is simultaneously a macropolitics and a micropolitics.' With an eye to open-ended research questions, this article attempts to build a body of theoretical, political and anthropologic…
Minorities in Iran
Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the Wellcome Trust Society & Ethics Doctoral Scholarship' [grant number WT101988MA]
Drugs and Revolution in Iran
On 27 June 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini declared, ‘drugs are prohibited” and their trafficking, consumption and “promotion” were against the rules of Islam and could not take place in the Islamic Republic. This ruling, although informal in nature, sanctioned a swift re-direction of Iran's previous approach to narcotic drugs, both in terms of production and consumption. As had happened in 1955, Iran seemed ready to go back to a policy of total prohibi…
Shi’a Jurisprudence and Constitution
Drugs and Revolution in Iran
On 27 June 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini declared, ‘drugs are prohibited” and their trafficking, consumption and “promotion” were against the rules of Islam and could not take place in the Islamic Republic. This ruling, although informal in nature, sanctioned a swift re-direction of Iran's previous approach to narcotic drugs, both in terms of production and consumption. As had happened in 1955, Iran seemed ready to go back to a policy of total prohibi…
Under the bridge in Tehran
The article provides an ethnographic study of the lives of the 'dangerous class' of drug users based on fieldwork carried out among different drug using 'communities' in Tehran between 2012 and 2016. The primary objective is to articulate the presence of this category within modern Iran, its uses and its abuses in relation to the political. What drives the narration is not only the account of this lumpen, plebeian group vis à vis the state, but a…
Maintaining disorder
This article analyses the ways in which the state 'treats' addiction among precarious drug (ab)users in Iran. While most Muslim-majority as well as some Western states have been reluctant to adopt harm reduction measures, the Islamic Republic of Iran has done so on a nationwide scale and through a sophisticated system of welfare intervention. Additionally, it has introduced devices of management of 'addiction' (the 'camps') that defy statist mode…
Passive, Silent and Revolutionary
To counter the trend toward mechanization of research and aridity of critical analysis, this article makes a case for an interdisciplinary quest. To borrow Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze's phrase, we are convinced that 'everything is political, but every politics is simultaneously a macropolitics and a micropolitics.' With an eye to open-ended research questions, this article attempts to build a body of theoretical, political and anthropologic…
Decolonizing Drug History? Notes on a Journey Southward
The council of expediency
Giorgio Agamben argues that in contemporary governance the use of 'emergency' is no longer provisional, but 'constitutes a permanent technology of government' and has produced the extrajudicial notion of crisis. The engendering of 'zones of indistinction' between the law and its practice is what Agamben defines as a 'state of exception'. This article adopts the notion enunciated by Agamben and revisits it in the Islamic Republic of Iran. There, t…
The Pluriverse of Intoxication
This article establishes a conceptual framework for decolonial drug histories and, at the same time, moves beyond decolonization. It brings back the radical alterity of historical figures of intoxication in the Islamicate world and introduces them as paradigms with potential to go beyond decolonization. This approach refers to the urgency of not comfortably relying on decolonial critique as moral indignation toward the past but rather showing tha…
The everyday lives of drugs
The everyday is the material structure where the performance of culture and economy takes place. It is also the place where private and public institutions and bureaucracies set the rhythm of life for workers and citizens. Negotiating with the machines, be it factories, offices, online meeting rooms, the desks of administrators, and the rules of loans and credit institutions and agents is the stuff of everyday life. In the drug lifeworlds, the te…
Critique of everyday narco-capitalism
Capitalism is not only an economic mode of production; it is also a form of life. This also applies to a historical type of capitalism, which is the capitalism founded on (illicit) drugs - in other words: narco-capitalism. The article discusses how capitalism alters life at the nexus of drug production, trade and consumption through a study of drug heartlands in Colombia, Afghanistan and Myanmar. What forms of life emerge under narco-capitalism? …
Spirit and being
Few commodities are as global as drugs. Cannabis, opium, heroin, amphetamines, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), khat, psychedelic cacti and mushrooms as well as an interminable list of other natural or synthesised substances travel and are consumed around the globe for all possible reasons. Human migration, trade, cultural trends, medical practice, political repression: together they constitute the drug phenomenon today – and indeed in much of h…
Shi’a Jurisprudence and Constitution
Minorities in Iran
Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the Wellcome Trust Society & Ethics Doctoral Scholarship' [grant number WT101988MA]
Drugs and Revolution in Iran
On 27 June 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini declared, ‘drugs are prohibited” and their trafficking, consumption and “promotion” were against the rules of Islam and could not take place in the Islamic Republic. This ruling, although informal in nature, sanctioned a swift re-direction of Iran's previous approach to narcotic drugs, both in terms of production and consumption. As had happened in 1955, Iran seemed ready to go back to a policy of total prohibi…
Passive, Silent and Revolutionary
To counter the trend toward mechanization of research and aridity of critical analysis, this article makes a case for an interdisciplinary quest. To borrow Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze's phrase, we are convinced that 'everything is political, but every politics is simultaneously a macropolitics and a micropolitics.' With an eye to open-ended research questions, this article attempts to build a body of theoretical, political and anthropologic…
Islam and cannabis
Iran is currently discussing cannabis and opium regulations, which could bring a legalisation of drug consumption through a state supervised system. The article engages with the question of cannabis by looking at the legal interpretation of religious authorities in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The choice of Iran is justified for several reasons: firstly, Iran has a long history of drug use and cannabis has been part of the country's intoxicant t…
Maintaining disorder
This article analyses the ways in which the state 'treats' addiction among precarious drug (ab)users in Iran. While most Muslim-majority as well as some Western states have been reluctant to adopt harm reduction measures, the Islamic Republic of Iran has done so on a nationwide scale and through a sophisticated system of welfare intervention. Additionally, it has introduced devices of management of 'addiction' (the 'camps') that defy statist mode…
Spirit and being
Few commodities are as global as drugs. Cannabis, opium, heroin, amphetamines, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), khat, psychedelic cacti and mushrooms as well as an interminable list of other natural or synthesised substances travel and are consumed around the globe for all possible reasons. Human migration, trade, cultural trends, medical practice, political repression: together they constitute the drug phenomenon today – and indeed in much of h…
Lessons on the Drug War from an Enemy
Iran has largely abandoned its hard-line policies and now treats drug abuse as a public health problem. Why is it so hard for other nations to renounce their costly embrace of prohibition
Drugs Politics
s funding landscape, especially for works related to Iran and the
Le ministère de la crise ou l’art de gouverner en Iran
Cette étude reprend la notion d’« état d’exception » énoncée par Giorgio Agamben et la revisite dans le cadre du système politique de la République islamique d’Iran, généralement considérée comme un État autoritaire par les observateurs occidentaux. Dans ce pays, la catégorie de crise a été pourvue d’un statut juridique par l’institution de la notion de maslahat , « intérêt », interprétée au croisement de l’exégèse théologique chiite et de l’État…
The council of expediency
Giorgio Agamben argues that in contemporary governance the use of 'emergency' is no longer provisional, but 'constitutes a permanent technology of government' and has produced the extrajudicial notion of crisis. The engendering of 'zones of indistinction' between the law and its practice is what Agamben defines as a 'state of exception'. This article adopts the notion enunciated by Agamben and revisits it in the Islamic Republic of Iran. There, t…
Power and Illicit Drugs in the Global South
Gianroberto Scarcia (11 March 1933—1 July 2018), Italian Iranologist
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Under the bridge in Tehran
The article provides an ethnographic study of the lives of the 'dangerous class' of drug users based on fieldwork carried out among different drug using 'communities' in Tehran between 2012 and 2016. The primary objective is to articulate the presence of this category within modern Iran, its uses and its abuses in relation to the political. What drives the narration is not only the account of this lumpen, plebeian group vis à vis the state, but a…
Critical policy frontiers
Ontological journeys
How can we conceive alternative policy models that embrace the empirical potentialities emerging from the lifeworld of drugs? The article reflects on this question, concluding that to reassess and to reinvent current policies on drugs, we need to think with a political ontology. Incidentally, the article also responds to the critique dismissing ontological inquiries as obstructing - or, at best, not informing - alternative drug policies. In an ar…
Drugs, conflict and development
The Mythological Machine in the Great Civil War (2001–2021)
The article revisits 'sectarianism' as an epistemic venue within the context of a Great Civil War in the Middle East (2001-2021), a label that includes the overarching narratives of political life in the aftermath of 9/11 up to the aftermath of the so-called 'Arab Spring.' By introducing the notion of the 'mythological machine,' it argues that 'sectarianism' is a myth, something that does not exist in real terms, but which has real world effects.…
Social work post-disaster response in Iran
Flash-flooding affected Iran in March 2019 causing the displacement of thousands of people. Social workers established a Child Friendly Space (CFS) and applied comprehensive case management to provide psychosocial support for people who were affected by flooding (PWAF) (n = 565) in a community in Poldokhtar, covering a period of 3 months. Outreach services, involving community-volunteers, providing counseling, establishing CFS, training PWAF for …
The Pluriverse of Intoxication
This article establishes a conceptual framework for decolonial drug histories and, at the same time, moves beyond decolonization. It brings back the radical alterity of historical figures of intoxication in the Islamicate world and introduces them as paradigms with potential to go beyond decolonization. This approach refers to the urgency of not comfortably relying on decolonial critique as moral indignation toward the past but rather showing tha…
The everyday lives of drugs
The everyday is the material structure where the performance of culture and economy takes place. It is also the place where private and public institutions and bureaucracies set the rhythm of life for workers and citizens. Negotiating with the machines, be it factories, offices, online meeting rooms, the desks of administrators, and the rules of loans and credit institutions and agents is the stuff of everyday life. In the drug lifeworlds, the te…
Critique of everyday narco-capitalism
Capitalism is not only an economic mode of production; it is also a form of life. This also applies to a historical type of capitalism, which is the capitalism founded on (illicit) drugs - in other words: narco-capitalism. The article discusses how capitalism alters life at the nexus of drug production, trade and consumption through a study of drug heartlands in Colombia, Afghanistan and Myanmar. What forms of life emerge under narco-capitalism? …
Decolonizing Drug History? Notes on a Journey Southward
The cultural turn in understanding ‘addiction’
A Double Decline in Character”
Using a constructivist grounded theory design, this study explores the perception and experience of Iranian women living with drug use, identifying everyday conflicts and coping strategies that enable them to manage their situation. We conducted unstructured, in-depth interviews with abstinent drug users (11) and healthcare professionals (2) at three rehab centers in Tehran, Iran. In line with our grounded theory aspirations to explore the social…
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